On Friday morning Donald Trump lawyer Susan Necheles was raked over the coals by two former prosecutors who felt she flubbed her cross-examination of adult film star Stormy Daniels in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday.
Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who served as a prosecutor before moving on to politics, and ex-Assistant United States Attorney Andrew Weissmann claimed the former president's lawyer went down a road she didn't need to follow and it came back to bite her before the jury.
According to the acerbic McCaskill, Necheles' intense and repetitive cross-examination graded out as an "F."
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"I read most of the cross last night because I was curious, and I know I've heard you speak that this particular criminal defense lawyer is very experienced and knowing what she was doing," McCaskill began as she addressed Weissmann, "But I was shocked that she went on for seven pages about whether or not they had dinner."
"Normally a courtroom lawyer, they get the sense they're losing the jury: that they are banging on a door that's never going to open and all they're doing is irritating people," she continued. "It seemed like to me that she was doing that and I can't figure out if she thought it was effective or if she was required to do it by her client."
"I thought in huge swaths of the cross-examination, I would have given her an F if I was grading moot court," she elaborated. "Especially some of the questions where she knew what the answer was going to be. Like 'You made this up, didn't you?' That's a rookie mistake! Why would you ask that when you know the answer is going to be a definitive no? I don't get it. "
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